Humanitarian Access, Safety and Security Advisor

Location: Nairobi, Kenya; candidates must be nationals or residents of Kenya, the UK, or Geneva, or be hosted in another country with an IRC office. Up to 40% international travel may be required, including to areas affected by armed conflict.

Compensation: CHF 100,000–115,000 per year in Switzerland; GBP 60,000–66,000 per year in the UK.

Company

hirify.global is an international humanitarian NGO responding to conflict, displacement, natural disasters, and complex emergencies in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities.

What you will do

• Develop humanitarian access, acceptance, and engagement strategies for emergency programs in complex and volatile environments.
• Support country leadership and frontline teams with crisis analysis, scenario planning, risk mitigation, incident management, and remote management approaches.
• Strengthen safety and security preparedness, contingency planning, and alignment with Security Minimum Standards and Duty of Care principles.
• Design and deliver training, coaching, mentoring, humanitarian negotiation, READI, and context-analysis activities for IRC teams and partners.
• Develop humanitarian access frameworks, technical resources, guidance, and knowledge-management systems with consortium partners.
• Build relationships with authorities, power brokers, security actors, community stakeholders, and humanitarian organizations.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in international humanitarian assistance, NGO programs, and safety and security management in complex and volatile environments.
• Significant practical experience in humanitarian access, humanitarian negotiation, civil-military coordination, security management, or related areas.
• Experience facilitating learning and developing tools, guidance, and training materials for diverse audiences and practitioners.
• Advanced skills in humanitarian negotiation, humanitarian-military relations, and/or engagement with armed groups.
• Strong analytical, communication, diplomatic, relationship-building, facilitation, training, and coaching skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and French is required.

Nice to have

• Arabic or Spanish language skills.
• Experience working with women, youth, persons with disabilities, and other groups at risk of exclusion.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a multinational humanitarian team supporting emergency responses worldwide.
• Collaborative, inclusive, and partnership-oriented working environment.
• Focus on gender equality, diversity, inclusion, safeguarding, and reflective learning.
• Opportunity to support programs across conflict-affected and high-risk environments.
• International travel of up to 40% may be required.